colander
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Enthralled, Elio plops a colander on his head and pleads for aliens to touch down and “take me with you — but not in a desperate way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
And the NHL’s most fearsome netminder suddenly looked as impenetrable as a colander.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2025
If you don't have access to eclipse glasses, you can create a simple pinhole camera with just two sheets of cardboard or even use a colander to project the Sun's image safely onto the ground.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
Strain through a colander, saving ½ cup of the cooking liquid, then add the pasta to the saute pan, along with the reserved cooking liquid.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
We returned to the kitchen, where my mother was draining a pot of boiled rice into a colander.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Aside from looking pretty, the pan has a built-in spoon and spatula rest and has a modular design that lets you nest steamer baskets and colanders.
From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2021
War-ruined bathhouses are dotted around Aleppo’s Old City, their distinctive domes, punched like colanders with round apertures of colored glass, lying smashed, or looking down on rooms filled with rubble and garbage.
From Reuters ● May 9, 2019
Three professional-grade mixing bowls and two colanders make up this Epicurious set.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2019
Bailey scooped lard from a tub to mix into flour for cobbler dough, while I drained peaches in colanders set over soup pots.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2018
Brimming bowls and colanders lined the countertop, spices and pastes were measured and blended, and eventually a collection of broths simmered over periwinkle flames on the stove.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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